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Yuni-Tok

It is my pleasure to bring you this edition of Yuni-Tok (pidgin for ‘university talk’). The overall objective is to ensure that we at the Pasifika Directorate work with you, the lecturer or service provider who interacts with Pasifika students, to accomplish your tasks successfully. We provide here some background information that you may find useful including some information on demographics, the Pasifika@Massey Strategy, a discussion of Pasifika values, an explanation of student behaviours you may encounter, stereotypes that should be avoided, some pedagogical approaches and a few phrases you might like to learn from the most commonly spoken Pasifika languages at Massey University. More importantly, we feature a few of our Pasifika students who share their thoughts and opinions on their academic journeys here at Massey.